“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 79th envelope object was a drawing made by me on Friday, November 25th, at work. It was a joke on Don Wilbur; Don and his wife, Marilyn, visited us that Friday evening and I showed them the sketch. I thought also that Jane saw the object that evening, but as it developed she did not. Thus, she had never seen the drawing until after the experiment. This evening I placed it between two pieces of Bristol, then sealed it in the usual double envelopes.

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down; she was smoking; her eyes began to open soon; her pace was rather fast and her voice quite loud, comparatively—the loudest it has been in some time.)

(Break at 9:25. Jane said she was “pretty far-out.” The strong voice had swept her along, with few short pauses. Eyes open often, delivery active. Resume in the same manner at 9:33.)

(Break at 9:54. Again Jane was well dissociated. Her delivery had again been forceful, the voice loud, the eyes open often, but the pace had slackened somewhat near the end. Resume in about the same manner at 10:00.)

(At 10:08, Jane took the envelope for our 79th experiment from me. Her eyes closed, she raised it to her forehead in a horizontal position, as usual. Her delivery was rather fast.)

A note, somehow connected with a dissatisfaction. An inordinate amount of time taken. Too many of something to hold. JB, or Ruburt; that is, Jane Butts here.

(Jane still held the envelope to her forehead.

(Break at 10:27. Jane was again well dissociated. Her eyes had remained closed, her pace good. She could recall a few images she’d had while speaking, and said more would come to mind as we went over the data. At the moment she remembered something small in a left-hand corner on an envelope; of a building of some kind; and of something round like a postmark or vaccination. Note that these are vague.

(I asked Jane to handle the envelope carefully as soon as she came out of trance, and to lay it flat on the table while opening both envelopes, etc., in order to see if the small object was in a left-hand corner. Apparently it had been centered however, although shifting might have taken place.)

(See page 203 for a copy of the object. As stated, it is a mock postage stamp I drew on Friday, November 25, 1966, at work. It is a spoof on Don Wilbur—"Young Donny"—and I showed it to Don and his wife, Marilyn, when they visited us that evening. The Gallaghers were also present. I thought the drawing had been passed around that evening and that Jane had seen it, but she said tonight that she had not. At any rate she had no recollection of seeing it before, to my surprise.

(Seth did not return, so Jane and I made our own connections.

(“And a solid horizontal line, black or dark". Perhaps close here. There are solid black lines on the object—both the border and the pattern on the shirt. When Jane carefully opened the double envelopes experiment, I found the object positioned thus far as I could tell:

(It has been noted that Jane held the sealed envelopes to her forehead in a horizontal position, or with their long axes parallel to the floor. Thus part of the black border on the object, or the pattern on the shirt, would appear horizontal if Seth picked this data up in a somewhat literal way.

(“Something by itself in a low left-hand corner.” As noted earlier, when the double envelopes were opened the object appeared to have been centered within them. Jane said she’d had an image of a small object in a corner of an envelope, however.

(In addition, the idea of a federal building enters in, in that the object is a pseudopostage stamp. Monument can also apply, for in the U.S. only deceased persons are shown on stamps; thus an appearance on a stamp is a kind of tribute and a sort of monument. Jane said she did not know of this policy. I was familiar with it through collecting stamps years ago. Telepathy here?

(“A small round form that seems to be like a postmark or vaccination mark.” Here again Seth/Jane explores the mail connection with the object, which is a pseudopostage stamp. Jane had an image of a small round shape.

(“Printed or embossed.” Yes. Jane said by printing here she meant my hand-printing on the object, versus handwriting. Also, stamps of course are printed in production.

(Jane also said the embossed data is legitimate, and stemmed from two things on the object: the “squiggly" frame I indicated in the drawing, and the fact that the center portion of the object had added dimension or thickness because of the two pieces of paper—actually one-ply drawing paper—being pasted together.

(“I do not believe the following is precisely correct here: Something like tottle or turtle. Perhaps having to do with a name or address.” Jane said this was her way of getting at a connection with Don Wilbur’s wife, Marilyn. The connection being that Don was spoofed on the object.

(Jane said she went through high school with a girl named Marilyn Tuttle. She had forgotten about Marilyn Tuttle until this data cropped up.

(“Some indications of disaster, though this may be strong.” Humorously, Jane said the caricature of Don Wilbur could be called a disaster. Especially the unbeautiful features and the red eyeballs. See page 203. Actually the drawing bears no resemblance to Don, purposely being done in that manner.

(“Dissonance.” Jane said the object is dissonant rather than being harmonious, I purposely so produced it.

(“A note, somehow connected with a dissatisfaction. An inordinate amount of time taken. Too many of something to hold. JB, or Ruburt; that is, Jane Butts here.” We don’t know. Without Seth’s help we cannot see connections. As stated, Jane was present when the envelope object was shown to the Wilburs on their visit here; perhaps Seth was getting at the fact that Jane didn’t actually see the object that evening.

(“Connection with advice or an advisor.” Jane said this is legitimate, and refers to my being considered a help to young people such as Marilyn and Don, who are in their early 20’s. I’m 47.

(“A perpendicular arrangement with dots.” As noted in the sketch at the top of page 209, some of the lines on the object would be perpendicular as Jane held the envelope to her forehead. She said the dot data referred to the tiny red lines on the eyeballs of the drawing; to her they appeared to be dots, being quite small.

(2nd Question: In what way? “This could be a result of the newspaper connection. Something opened up, symbolically, I believe.” Possibly Leonard’s name arose here because of the earlier newspaper data which calls the Gallaghers to mind. Leonard does have a newspaper connection with Jane and me, in that he obtains the New York Times at work, then gives it to us each day after he finishes reading it. He also gives us the Sunday edition, and various news magazines on a regular basis, so in this sense he has a strong “news" connection with us. His name may have arisen in this data however through distortion, since it would appear the Gallaghers have a more direct newspaper connection with the object, through me.

(3rd Question: Can you say anything more about the drawing? “In the corner?" As noted on page 209, apparently the object was centered inside the double envelopes. Jane however had an image of a small object in a corner of an envelope.